Friday, February 22, 2008

Associating Several File Extensions to the Same Program

It's easy in Explorer to create a file type for a give extension.

But what if you want several extensions to identify the same file type?
Example- I want BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG to all be passed to the same program when I double-click them.
You can make a file type for each all using the same program, but then you install some other editing program (for one effect) or worse! a new browser , and it rudely associates each type with itself.
The trick is to make one file type (Image File) which you configure to set your preferred graphics viewer.
Then to associate multiple file extensions with that type, run WINFILE.EXE, the old Win 3.1 File Manager.
Use File Associate, and you can quickly associate each extension with that file type.

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